Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ernst Mayr

Our understanding of the world is achieved more effectively by conceptual improvements than by discovery of new facts

Ernest Rutherford

An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.

Henry David Thoreau

So far as inland discovery was concerned, the adventurous spirit of the English was that of sailors who land but for a day, and their enterprise the enterprise of traders.

Stephen Corry

India used to trade at a discount to the region, and now it trades at a slight premium. Earnings growth remains pretty solid, but it's starting to slow.

Pliny the Elder

The most valuable discoveries have found their origin in the most trivial accidents.

John C. Maxwell

You can easily determine the caliber of a person by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him or her.

Johannes Stark

The discovery of various phenomena has led to a recognition of the fact that the chemical atom is an individual which again is itself made up of several units into a selfcontained whole.

Johannes Stark

At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.

Jacob Bronowski

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.

Jacob Bronowski

The progress of science is the discovery at each step of a new order which gives unity to what had seemed unlike.

And I made a discovery last night. I told my wife I made a discovery, and sure enough today I was making putts.

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

In some strange way, any new fact or insight that I may have found has not seemed to me as a "discovery" of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.

Jimmy Carter

America has had the best university system in the world for a long time. And so we have been innovators, not only in the discoveries as proven by Nobel Prizes in chemistry and physics and that sort of thing, but we've been able to put that into practical application with new gadgets that people admire.

What makes resisting temptation difficult for many people is they don't want to discourage it completely.

Taylor Branch

The lessons that come from discovery of the Movement's story should point us forward.

Robert Sean Leonard

The less I work, the happier I am. I discovered that, as most people discover at some point.

The legal landscape has tilted dramatically. We have to work with everyone to discourage this.

Tennessee Williams

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

Terence McKenna

Apparently there is a great discovery or insight which our culture is deliberately designed to suppress, distort, and ignore. That is that nature is some kind of minded entity. That nature is not simply the random flight of atoms through electromagnetic fields. Nature is not the empty, despiritualized , lumpen matter that we inherit from modern physics. But it is instead a kind of intelligence, a kind of mind.

Randall Jarrell

originality" is everyone's aim, and novel techniques are as much prized as new scientific discoveries. [T.S.] Eliot states it with surprising naïveté: "It is exactly as wasteful for a poet to do what has been done already as for a biologist to rediscover Mendel's discoveries.

Virginia Woolf

The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

The completely untravelled person will view all foreigners as the savage regards the members of another herd. But the man who has travelled, or who has studied international politics, will have discovered that, if he had to prosper, it must, to some

Michel de Montaigne

Whenever a new discovery is reported to the world, they say first, It is probably not true, Then after, when the truth of the new proposition has been demonstrated beyond question, they say, Yes, it may be true, but it is not important. Finally, when sufficient time has elapsed to fully evidence its importance, they say, Yes, surely it is important, but it is no longer new.

Michel de Montaigne

I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

Paulo Freire

How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to be 'hosts' of the oppressor can they contribute to the midwifery of their liberating pedagogy. As long as they live in the duality in which to be is to be like and to be like is to be like the oppressor, this contribution is impossible. The pedagogy of the oppressed is an instrument for their critical discovery that both they and their oppressors are manifestations of dehumanization.

Neale Donald Walsch

Life is a creation, not a discovery. You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it

Nate Berkus

You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things.

Milan Kundera

Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

I will not be discouraged by failure; I will not be elated by success.

Joseph Addison

Reason shows itself in all occurrences of life; whereas the brute makes no discovery of such a talent, but in what immediately regards his own preservation or the continuance of his species.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

I have always thought that clarity is a form of courtesy that the philosopher owes; moreover, this discipline of ours considers it more truly a matter of honor today than ever before to be open to all minds ... This is different from the individual sciences which increasingly [interpose] between the treasure of their discoveries and the curiosity of the profane the tremendous dragon of their closed terminology.

Amoco-BP has shown the way, ... Big is better because you need more power to discover oil and you need more strength.

Edward Teller

[Chemistry] laboratory work was my first challenge. ... I still carry the scars of my first discovery-that test-tubes are fragile.